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Canadian Court Rejects
Tough Bar to Smoking

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Tamsin Carlisle Dow Jones Newswires

Updated Feb. 23, 2000 12:01 a.m. ET

VANCOUVER, British Columbia -- A British Columbia court struck down a closely watched provincial antismoking law regarded as the toughest in Canada. But the ruling is unlikely to end British Columbia's fight to recover billions of dollars in health costs from tobacco companies.

"The province certainly has grounds to appeal," Daniel Webster, a lawyer representing the British Columbia government in the case, said. "This...